“Once again the geographic diversity of our markets allowed us to deliver volume and revenue growth in the first quarter of 2011 despite the impact of the timing of Easter this year. However, increasing commodity prices during our seasonally least significant trading period reduced our profitability for the quarter.

While input costs will remain a challenge throughout the year, we expect trading conditions to improve as we move into our more important summer selling period during the second quarter. We will continue to balance the need to offset significant increases in commodity prices with the ability of our consumers to bear increased cost and our strategy of strengthening our market position.

We believe that our focus on execution in the marketplace and the added benefits of our new customer centric initiatives across our diverse geographic territory will enable us to create value both in the near and longer term.”